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Experts in chimpanzees
Professor, Anthropology, Interim Assistant Vice President for Research
Professor Melissa Thompson's research focuses on interactions of ecology, health, reproduction, and behavior in apes and humans. Seeks to better understand the sources of variation in life history within and between species as a way of...
Associate Professor: Anthropology
Research focuses on the interaction of climatic, vegetation and faunal changes in the fossil record, particularly with respect to ape and hominin paleoecologies.
Uses stable isotopic and dental microwear analyses to reconstruct...